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Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: AudiobookHub Recommendation
Chapter 2: Economic growth won't ensure joy or riches.
Chapter 3: Two modes—'having' and 'being'—determine the way we experience our life.
Chapter 4: The having mindset fosters selfishness.
Chapter 5: Humanity battles nature, no matter what it costs.
Chapter 6: We must grasp the roots of our dissatisfaction and renew our experience by fully transforming our character.
Chapter 7: To change human experience, we must refashion society and define a new shared reason for existence.
Chapter 8: Humanity tends to resist change, even if it costs present and future fulfillment for us.
Description
To Have or To Be (1976) challenges the consumerist motivations that drive us “to have” and instead invites readers to embrace a new ideal: “to be.” This way of life provides the fulfillment that power, status, and keeping up with the Joneses promise don’t deliver.
Who Should Listen
- Busy people tired of the “rat race.”
- Weary workers seeking fulfillment beyond materialism, power, and status.
- Mindful people who desire a life of purposeful productivity.